Science & Technology

400 blood samples supposedly collected to research causes of diabetes in the Havasupai Indian tribe were used for other purposes. Lessons learned?

While the word, advancement generally connotes that something is better, this reporter argues that often “advancements” come in a package with more negatives than positives.

Was President Obama’s swim in the Gulf last weekend enough to convince the public that the water is clear of oil and dispersants, the fish safe to eat and the images of the BP oil spill we’ve seen since April, old news? The owners of New Orleans’ oldest continually operating oyster processor and distributor in the country, P&J Oyster Company hope so. Ironically, government’s six month moratorium on offshore drilling also continues to threaten Gulf fishermen.

This Voices’ reporter argues that for more than 70 years the oil and gas industries have been playing a crap game, wrecking havoc on Louisiana’s coastal wetlands. “As a result, we are losing a football field worth of wetlands – our natural hurricane protection – every 45 minutes. Now is the time to make sure they pay their fair share for coastal restoration.”

If Massachusetts’ Governor signs S.2028 into law then state officials will have the power to mandate and enforce mass immunizations and quarantines. Disobedience will be met with a $1000 fine or imprisonment for to 30 days. Is this science good enough for you to roll up your sleeve? This expert says, “No.”

The worst environmental disaster in U.S. history is challenging communities that lived through Hurricane Katrina and are once again fighting for their survival.

If wildlife could talk they would cry outrage over the total mismanagement of the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. And if lying about the actual number of barrels of oil surging into the Gulf of Mexico wasn’t bad enough, we learn from Voices’ reporter Sayer Ji (FL) that BP, with the permission of the Environmental Protection Agency (until May 26), could be causing “the mother of all extinctions.”

It’s scary that BP seems so confounded as to how to staunch the tens of thousands of barrels of oil that is gushing into the Gulf of Mexico every day. Threatening the environmental and economic landscape along the coastline for what is likely to be years to come one wonders in the wake of recent mining disasters whether there will be a big push for nuclear energy – but at what risk?

Six major earthquakes have killed over 223,000 people and caused terrible devastation in five countries since January. Is Mother Nature sending us a message?

When a Fox News commentator refers to global climate change as “shocking scientific fraud” and efforts to reduce carbon emissions, “a socialist ploy” and then news about scientists disputing the findings of global warming makes headlines in advance of the Copenhagen conference on global warming (December 2009) one wonders whether God’s Will will ever be done?